Asia
Pan-asian or supra-regional resources related to the Asian continent.
For a list of pages see Category:Asia.
Introduction
Probably the best resource to monitor Asian developments, is Bytes for All, maintained by Frederick Noronha [1] and team.
This list of participants at the Asia Commons conference [2] gives you an idea of who is active in the Commons-related fields in this continent.
The Directory of Democracy Bloggers [3] has a country-by-country overview of sources.
A good context for understanding A2K Access to Knowledge and Access to Health concerns, is this text by Jamie Love on Bilateral Free Trade Agreements and IP
A selection of English-language Asia blogs is made for the nominations of the Best Asian Blog Awards
Also check the Delicious Tag P2P-Asia
The following country pages are available: Burma, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
The selections below will be chosen in cooperation with Frederick Noronha.
Directory
Digital Divide
Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme [4]
Media
Open/free organizations
List of GNU/Linux user groups across South Asia
Asian Open Source Centre - Asia OSC
Promote open source and free software in Asia.
Advocates and activists
- Sunil Abraham
- Fouad Riaz Bajwa
- Tyng-Ruey Chuang
- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
- Lawrence Liang
- Jedi Lin
- Frederick Noronha
- Shankar Sankaran
Books:
Gan, S., J. Gomez and J. Uwe (eds.) (2004) Asian Cyberactivism: Freedom of Expression and Media Censorship. Bangkok: Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Essays:
- George, C. (2003) ‘The Internet and the Narrow Tailoring Dilemma for ‘Asian’ Democracies’, Communication Review 6 (3): 247-268.
- Hachigian, N. (2002) ‘The Internet and Power in One-Party East Asian States’, Washington Quarterly 25(3): 41-58.
Places
DIYBio projects in Asia:
- Biomodd (LBA2) Philippines project http://www.biomodd.net/lba2
- HONF http://www.natural-fiber.com
- Singapore DIYbio event http://diybiosingapore.wordpress.com
- Tokyo Hackerspace http://tokyohackerspace.org/
- Tokyo Radiation Levels http://www.facebook.com/Tokyo.Radiation.Levels
- Tokyo Kids& Radiation community http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tokyo-Kids-Radiation/227762067240468